Yogi explains pratyahara - interiorize every meditation

Summary

October 20, 2018, 19 min

How heart rate variability resonance, with breath and heartbeat rising and falling together, balances ida and pingala into sandhya, the twilight wedding that begins pratyahara. Covers the baroreceptor and dorsal vagal brake, three breath rules, Lahiri Mahasaya's twelve-breath count, and how pratyahara leads into dharana, dhyana, samadhi and samyama.

In this video

Teaches

PratyaharaHRV ResonanceSandhya

Discusses

Dorsal Vagal ComplexRichard GevirtzHoly Trinity of BreathAMOLSympathetic nervous systemParasympathetic nervous systemIda and PingalaDharanaDhyanaSamadhiSamyamaLahiri MahasayaKriya numbers

Mentions

SahajaWatching the breathSpiritual eyeSelf-realizationSushumna

Key moments

00:00Pratyahara as the crux of repeatable deep meditation 01:11What heart rate variability is: respiratory sinus arrhythmia 01:44The baroreceptor speeds the heart on the inbreath 03:01Outbreath: the dorsal vagal nerve brakes the heart 03:45Breath and heartbeat in resonance, a flexible sine wave 05:31Gevirtz: lower the breath under seven breaths a minute 07:46Three rules: lower the rate, no pauses, longer outbreath 09:01Balancing the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems 10:25Ida and pingala marry in sandhya, the twilight 11:46Pratyahara: withdrawing from all ten senses 12:46Dharana, dhyana, samadhi and samyama follow pratyahara 14:23Why sandhya is the useful start of pratyahara 14:51Lahiri Mahasaya's twelve breaths and 144 breaths 17:05A scientific language for pratyahara every meditation